FILMS SEEN, 2003
All films from U.S.A. unless
otherwise specified.
(- seen on video; / repeat
viewing; [v] video piece; [p] paracinema (installation, etc.); [s] short, under
30 minutes; [m] medium length, 30-69 min; * grade changed upon repeat viewing)
JANUARY
/-Real
Genius (Martha Coolidge, 1985)
About
Schmidt (Alexander Payne) [6]
The
Isle (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, 2000)
The
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, U.S.S.R., 1975)
Ivan’s
Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, U.S.S.R., 1962)
-The
Farewell [Brechts letzter sommer] (Jan Schütte, Germany, 2000)
-La
Captive (Chantal Akerman, Belgium / France, 2000)
-The
Slaughter Rule (Andrew & Alex Smith) [7]
Personal
Velocity (Rebecca Miller) [5]
Cremaster
3 (Matthew Barney) [6]
The
Hours (Stephen Daldry) [3]
-Lick
the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998) [s]
Narc
(Joe Carnahan) [7]
Catch
Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) [6]
25th
Hour (Spike Lee) [7]
-Videodrome
(David Cronenberg, Canada, 1983)
A
House Built on Water (Bahman Farmanara, Iran) [6]
Bemani
(Dariush Mehrjui, Iran) [3]
/-Dead
Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Rabbit-Proof
Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia) [4]
The
Beginning and the End (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico, 1993)
-Scarlet
Diva (Asia Argento, Italy, 2000)
Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) [5]
Blackboards
(Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran [Kurdistan], 2000)
Un
crabe dans le tête (André Turpin, Canada) [8]
City
of God (Fernando Meirelles / Katia Lund, Brazil) [6]
Lost in La Mancha (Keith
Fulton and Louis Pepe) [8]
FEBRUARY
/The
Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) [s]
/The
Lonedale Operator (D. W. Griffith, 1911) [s]
/The
Lonely Villa (D. W. Griffith, 1909) [s]
/-A
Corner in Wheat (D. W. Griffith, 1909) [s]
/25th
Hour (Spike Lee) [7]
Sweet
Sixteen (Ken Loach, U.K. / France / Spain) [6]
Irreversible
(Gaspar Noé, France) [9]
/-Intolerance
(D. W. Griffith, 1916)
Black
Rose Mansion (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1969)
Final
Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) [5]
The
Late Mathias Pascal (Marcel L’Herbier, France, 1925) [W/O] (2:09)
/Russian
Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia) [7]
/-Within
Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux, 1919)
Stone
Reader (Mark Moskowitz) [5]
Quai
des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1947)
Regarding
Penelope’s Wake (Michele Smith) [v] [5]
/-Potemkin
(Sergei Eisenstein, U.S.S.R., 1925)
He
Loves Me...He Loves Me Not [À la folie...pas du tout] (Laetitia Colombani,
France) [4]
Work
Done (Robert Beavers, 1999) [s]
/(nostalgia)
(Hollis Frampton, 1973) [m]
Testament
(James Broughton, 1974) [s]
/Shift
(Ernie Gehr, 1974) [s]
/Gently
Down the Stream (Su Friedrich, 1981) [s]
Mayhem
(Abigail Child, 1987) [s]
/-The
Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929)
Gerry
(Gus Van Sant) [8]
MARCH
The
Pianist (Roman Polanski, U.K. / France / Germany / Poland / The Netherlands)
[6]
Hukkle
(György Pálfi, Hungary) [5]
New
Guy (Bilge Ebiri) [v] [6]
Dark
Blue (Ron Shelton) [6]
The
Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium) [8]
/The
Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) [s] [5]
Eliana,
Eliana (Riri Riza, Indonesia) [W/O] (0:35)
I-San
Special (Mingmongkol Sonakul, Thailand) [4]
/Gerry
(Gus Van Sant) [8]
-The
Red Violin (François Girard, Canada / Italy / U.K., 1998)
/-Window
Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/The
Iron Horse (John Ford, 1924)
All
the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) [7]
-Bingo
/ Ninths (Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974) [s]
/-Splitting
(Gordon Matta-Clark, 1974) [s]
/-Earth
(Alexander Dovzhenko, U.S.S.R., 1930) [m]
Blind
Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (André Heller
& Othmar Schmiderer, Germany) [7]
/The Son (Jean-Pierre &
Luc Dardenne, Belgium) [9]*
Chi-hwa-seon
(Im Kwon-taek, South Korea) [6]
/Irreversible
(Gaspar Noé, France) [9]
Willard
(Glen Morgan) [7]
Safe
Conduct [Laissez-passer] (Bertrand Tavernier, France) [8]
The
Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) [5]
Spun
(Jonas Åkerlund) [4]
/-The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany, 1919) [m]
APRIL
/-Nosferatu,
a Symphony of Terror (F. W. Murnau, Germany, 1922) [65-minute edit]
/O
Fantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal, 2000)
The
Final Flight of the Osiris (Andy Jones) [s] [5]
Dreamcatcher
(Lawrence Kasdan) [W/O] (0:58)
The
Core (Jon Amiel) [6]
The
Last Letter (Frederick Wiseman, France / U.S.) [m] [4]
/Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, Palestine / France
/ Germany / Morocco) [8]
Glider
(Ernie Gehr) [v/m] [5]
/Eureka
(Ernie Gehr, 1974) [m]
City
(Ernie Gehr) [v/s] [8]
/-Metropolis
(Fritz Lang, Germany, 1926)
-Dead
or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike, Japan, 2000)
The
Good Thief (Neil Jordan, U.K. / France / Canada / Ireland) [6]
-Rejected
(Don Hertzfeld, 2000) [s]
/-Sherlock,
Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924) [m]
/Un
chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, France, 1929) [s]
-Modern
Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
Marion
Bridge (Wiebke von Carolsfeld, Canada) [5]
Better
Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin) [7]
Chaos
(Coline Serreau, France) [7]
/Ménilmontant
(Dimitri Kirsanov, France, 1926) [s]
/-The
Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 1928) [s]
-Happy
Together (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong / Argentina, 1997)
The
Trilogy I: On the Run (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium) [5]
The
Trilogy II: An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium) [7]
The
Trilogy III: After Life (Lucas Belvaux, France / Belgium) [4]
Fear
and Trembling (Alain Corneau, France) [7]
Squirtgun
/ Step Print (Pat O’Neill, 1998) [s]
Coreopsis
(Pat O’Neill, 1998) [s]
The
Decay of Fiction (Pat O’Neill) [8]
/I
Was Born But . . . (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1932)
In
My Skin (Marina de Van, France) [8]
-So
Close (Cory Yuen, Hong Kong) [4]
Raising
Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett) [4]
Friday
Night (Claire Denis, France) [6]
Bus
174 (José Padilha, Brazil) [8]
A
Peck on the Cheek (Mani Ratnam, India) [6]
Owning
Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, Canada / U.K.) [4]
-The
Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
MAY
Virgin
of Lust (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico / Spain / Portugal) [8]
Turning
Gate (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) [7]
The
Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)
/-City
Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
A
Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest) [5]
The
Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland) [8]
Jeff
(Mark Hejnar, 1999) [v/s]
/-Puce
Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]
Proxy
(Mark Hejnar) [v/s] [5]
Sogobi
(James Benning) [3]
/10
(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France) [7]
The
Shape of Things (Neil LaBute) [2]
Charlotte
Sometimes (Eric Byler) [5]
-I
Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) [m]
Waiting
For Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania / France) [7]
Blue
Car (Karen Moncrieff) [W/O] (0:40)
/-Simple
Men (Hal Hartley, 1992)
Le
Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, France / Italy, 1970) [W/O – a personal
emergency, not by choice] (0:38)
Man
On the Train (Patrice Leconte, France) [4]
The
Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Brothers) [4]
Down
With Love (Peyton Reed) [7]
X2
(Bryan Singer) [8]
Johnny
Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
The
Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
/untitled
(Ernie Gehr, 1977) [s] [projected at wrong speed]
/Pneuma
(Nathaniel Dorsky, 1983) [s]
Manic
(Jordan Melamed) [6]
/-Arrival
of a Train at La Ciotat (Lumière Bros., France, 1895) [s]
/-Demolition
of a Wall (Lumière Bros., France, 1895) [s]
/-Arrival
by Train in Perrache (Lumière Bros., France, 1895) [s]
/-The
Enchanted Well (Georges Méliès, France, 1903) [s]
/Ballet
Mechanique (Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, France, 1924) [s]
/-A
Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958) [s]
/-The
Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, U.S.S.R., 1929) [m]
/Cremaster
3 (Matthew Barney) [6]
Stan’s
Window (Stan Brakhage, Canada) [s] [9]
Work
in Progress (Stan Brakhage, Canada) [s]
The
Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage, Canada) [s] [6]
In
Between (Stan Brakhage, 1955) [s]
The
Dante Quartet (Stan Brakhage, 1987) [s]
The
Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage, 1981) [s]
Eye
Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1981) [s]
Nightmusic
(Stan Brakhage, 1986) [s]
/Night
Mulch (Stan Brakhage) [s] [8]
/Very
(Stan Brakhage) [s] [8]
Interpolations
1-5 (Stan Brakhage, 1992) [s]
Panels for the Walls of Heaven (Stan Brakhage) [m] [8]
-Get
Ready (Peter Tcherkassky, Austria, 1999) [s]
Cremaster
1 (Matthew Barney, 1995) [m]
/Cremaster
2 (Matthew Barney, 1999)
JUNE
-Domestic
Violence (Todd Haynes, n.d.) [v/s]
/-Superstar:
The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1986) [m]
Wrong
Turn (Rob Schmidt) [3]
/Un
Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France / Spain, 1929) [s]
-The
Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, France, 1928) [m]
/-The
Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber, 1928)
[s]
/Meshes
of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) [s]
The
Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, France, 1930) [m]
/-At
Land (Maya Deren, 1944) [s]
Spellbound
(Jeffrey Blitz) [W/O] (0:28)
/-A
Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1946) [s]
/-Rose
Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) [s]
/Fireworks
(Kenneth Anger, 1947) [s]
/Puce
Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949) [s]
/Eaux
d’Artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953) [s]
/Scorpio
Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964) [m]
Spellbound
(Jeffrey Blitz) [4]
Party
Girl (Nicholas Ray, 1958)
Hot
Blood (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
Marooned
in Iraq (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran [Kurdistan]) [6]
/Window
Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/Mothlight
(Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/-Sirius
Remembered (Stan Brakhage, 1959) [s]
/-Anticipation
of the Night (Stan Brakhage, 1958) [m]
-Bombay
(Mani Ratnam, India, 1995)
/Prelude:
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1961) [s]
/-Dog
Star Man: Part 1 (Stan Brakhage, 1962) [m]
/Dog
Star Man: Part 2 (Stan Brakhage, 1963) [s]
/Dog
Star Man: Part 3 (Stan Brakhage, 1964) [s]
/Dog
Star Man: Part 4 (Stan Brakhage, 1964) [s]
/-The
Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971) [m]
/Cosmic
Ray (Bruce Conner, 1961) [s]
/Permian
Strata (Bruce Conner, 1969) [s]
/Mongoloid
(Bruce Conner, 1978) [s]
Take
the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner, 1977) [s]
Valse
Triste (Bruce Conner, 1979) [s]
-Blind
Beast (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan, 1969)
Respiro
(Emanuele Crialese, Italy) [6]
-Xanadu
(Robert Greenwald, 1980)
Blue
Gate Crossing (Yee Chih-yen, Taiwan) [8]
Capturing
the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) [7]
/The
Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2000) [s]
Dracula:
Pages From a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin, Canada) [5]
/-Report
(Bruce Conner, 1967) [s]
/-Oh
Dem Watermelons (Robert Nelson, 1965) [s]
/-Hold
Me While I’m Naked (George Kuchar, 1966) [s]
/-Castro
Street (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]
/-All
My Life (Bruce Baillie, 1966) [s]
Nowhere
in Africa (Caroline Link, Germany) [6]
Beauty
#2 (Andy Warhol, 1965)
/Fuses
(Carolee Schneemann, 1967) [s]
/-Flaming
Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) [m]
/-Little
Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs, 1963) [s]
Manito
(Eric Eason) [6]
/All
That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
-Steal
This Movie (Robert Greenwald, 2000)
/Wavelength
(Michael Snow, Canada, 1967) [m]
Hulk
(Ang Lee) [5]
-News
from home (Chantal Akerman, U.S. / Belgium, 1977)
-1933
(Joyce Wieland, Canada, 1968) [s]
/-(nostalgia)
(Hollis Frampton, 1973) [m]
/-Sink
or Swim (Su Friedrich, 1990) [m]
Suddenly
(Tan de repente) (Diego Lerman, Argentina) [5]
/-Unsere
Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1966) [s]
/NOEMA
(Scott Stark, 1998) [v/s]
Otherwise
Unexplained Fires (Hollis Frampton, 1976) [s]
The
Anatomy of Melancholy (Brian Frye, 1999) [s]
/-Eye
Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1972) [s]
-Commingled
Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997) [s]
/Imitation
of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
Charlie’s
Angels: Full Throttle (McG) [3]
JULY
/-Tribulation
99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin, 1991) [m]
/-passage
á l’acte (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1993) [s]
/Looking
at the Sea (Peter Hutton) [9]
/La
Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962) [s]
/-The
Dark Tower (Stan Brakhage, 1999) [s]
28
Days Later (Danny Boyle, U.K.) [8]
Crime
and Punishment (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 1983)
Hamlet
Goes Business (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 1987)
The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, Italy / Spain, 1966)
Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) [8]
Madame Satã (Karim Ainouz,
Brazil) [7]
-A
Woman’s Secret (Nicholas Ray, 1949)
/-Safe
(Todd Haynes, 1995)
-Paradox
Lake (Przemyslaw Reut, U.S. / Germany) [4]
-Sitcom
(François Ozon, France, 1998)
Northfork
(Michael Polish) [7]
The
Present (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Finland) [s/v/p] [5]
Sleepers
(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran) [v/p] [8]
Close
(Atom Egoyan and Juliao Sarmento, Canada / Portugal) [s/v/p] [W/O] (0:12)
AUGUST
American
Wedding (Jesse Dylan) [6]
Swimming
Pool (François Ozon, France / U.K.) [4]
-Old
School (Todd Phillips) [4]
/-Spider
(David Cronenberg, Canada / U.K.) [6]
-Shanghai
Express (Josef von Sternberg, 1932)
/-Bartleby
(Jonathan Parker) [5]*
/-Heaven (Tom Tykwer, Germany / Italy / U.K.) [7]*
-Velvet
Goldmine (Todd Haynes, U.S. / U.K., 1998)
The
Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph) [7]
Dirty
Pretty Things (Stephen Frears, U.K.) [5]
/-Employees
Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-Arrival
of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-Feeding
the Baby (Repas de bébé) (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-The
Sprinkler Sprinkled (L’Arroseur arrosé) (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France,
1895) [s]
/-Demolition
of a Wall (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
-New
York: Broadway at Union Square (Louis and Auguste Lumière, France, 1895) [s]
/-A
Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France, 1902) [s]
/-The
Wonderful Living Fan (Georges Méliès, France, 1904) [s]
/-The
Living Playing Cards (Georges Méliès, France, 1905) [s]
/-Good
Glue Sticks (Georges Méliès, France, 1907) [s]
/-Long
Distance Wire Photography (Georges Méliès, France,1908) [s]
/-The
Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) [s]
-The
Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg, 1935)
-Prayer
(Jay Rosenblatt) [s] [3]
-untitled
(Ira Sachs) [v/s] [7]
-The
World is a Classroom (Caveh Zahedi) [v/s] [4]
-The
Voice of the Prophet (Robert Edwards) [s] [2]
-21
(Laura Plotkin) [v/s] [5]
-Meal
(Cathy Lee Crane and Sarah Lewison) [v/s] [5]
-La
Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, 1996)
-Igby
Goes Down (Burr Steers) [3]
/-Rashomon
(Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950)
SEPTEMBER
-Beware
of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1971)
-On
Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1951)
-The
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, U.K., 1970)
-Vanishing
Point (Richard C. Sarafian, 1971)
/-Intolerance
(D. W. Griffith, 1916)
The
Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, U.K.) [3]
/-Bowling
For Columbine (Michael Moore, U.S./ Canada) [7]
The
Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, Canada) [6]
Alexandra’s
Project (Rolf de Heer, Australia) [W/O] (1:10)
The
Tesseract (Oxide Pang, Thailand / U.K. / Japan) [2]
The
Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) [9]
Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea / Germany) [7]
Twentynine
Palms (Bruno Dumont, France) [6]
Cocteau
Centro (Dan Boord / Luis Valdovino) [v/s] [5]
System
of Transitions (Johannes Hammel, Austria) [v/s] [8]
Noor
(Deborah Phillips, Germany) [s] [4]
Interior
(Jim Jennings) [s] [7]
Translucent
Appearances (Barry Gerson, 1975) [s]
Nō
(Sharon Lockhart) [m] [6]
Rolling
in My Ears (Barry Gerson) [s] [2]
21
Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu) [4]
Come
and Go (João César Monteiro, Portugal / France) [8]
Feathers
in My Head (Thomas de Thier, France / Belgium) [3]
Good
bye, dragon inn (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) [5]
A
Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal / France / Italy) [7]
At
Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran / France) [7]
Guest
Room (Skander Halim, Canada) [v/s] [7]
Animal
Nightmares (Peter Lynch, Canada) [v/s] [1]
The
Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier, Denmark / Switzerland /
Belgium / France) [7]
Gozu
(Takashi Miike, Japan) [5]
Greendale
(Bernard Shakey) [W/O] (0:38)
Nathalie
. . . (Anne Fontaine, France) [5]
Histoire
de Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivette, France) [6]
Time
of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, France / Austria / Germany) [5]
My
Father and I (Xu Jinglei, China) [5]
Good
Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio, Italy) [4]
The
Third Page (Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey, 1999)
Zatoichi
(Takeshi Kitano, Japan) [5]
PTU
(Johnnie To, Hong Kong) [5]
Undead
(Peter and Michael Spierig, Australia) [3]
-Double
Vision (Chen Kuo-fu, Taiwan) [5]
God’s
Angry Man (Werner Herzog, West Germany, 1980) [m]
-The
Big Shave (Martin Scorsese, 1967) [s]
-O.C.
and Stiggs (Robert Altman, 1987)
Carnages
(Delphine Gleize, France / Spain / Belgium / Switzerland) [4]
/-Capturing
the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) [7]
-Bolivia
(Israel Adrián Caetano, Argentina) [5]
American
Splendor (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman) [8]
/-The
Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
OCTOBER
-The
Indian Fighter (Andre de Toth, 1955)
-The
Fancy (Elisabeth Subrin, 2000) [v/m]
-Him
and Me (James Benning, 1982)
The
School of Rock (Richard Linklater) [8]
Lost
In Translation (Sofia Coppola) [6]
Matchstick
Men (Ridley Scott) [7]
-A
Single Girl (Benoît Jacquot, France, 1995)
-Ripley’s
Game (Liliana Cavani, Italy / U.K.) [5]
Once
Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez, U.S. / Mexico) [7]
-É Minha Cara / That’s My
Face (Thomas Allen Harris) [v/m] [5]
Masked and Anonymous (Larry
Charles) [7]
-The Scarlet Empress (Josef
von Sternberg, 1934)
/Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich,
1990) [m]
/Chronicles of a Lying Spirit
(by Kelly Gabron) (Cauleen Smith, 1992) [s]
/(nostalgia) (Hollis
Frampton, 1971) [s]
-New York Portrait: Chapter
One (Peter Hutton, 1979) [s]
-New York Portrait: Chapter
Two (Peter Hutton, 1981) [s]
-New York Portrait: Part III
(Peter Hutton, 1990) [s]
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
[5]
/-Citizen Kane (Orson Welles,
1941)
From the Other Side (Chantal
Akerman, France / Belgium) [v] [6]
/The Secret Lives of Dentists
(Alan Rudolph) [8]*
-Everyone Says I Love You
(Woody Allen, 1996)
Transmitting Baba (Mišo
Suchý, U.S. / Slovakia) [v/s] [6]
Home Movie: a diary for my
American-born son (Mišo Suchý, U.S. / Slovakia) [v/m] [7]
Pictograph (Lida and Mišo
Suchý, U.S. / Ukraine) [v/s] [5]
-Open City (Roberto
Rossellini, Italy, 1945)
/-Mulholland Dr. (David
Lynch, 2001)
-Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan, 1953)
Alix (Robert Saxon) [v/s] [3]
-The Crowd Roars (Howard
Hawks, 1932)
/-In the Mood For Love (Wong
Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2000)
-Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh,
1942)
-11’09’01: September 11
(various directors) [5]
#1 (Samira Makhmalbaf, Iran) [s] [7]
#2 (Claude Lelouch, France) [s] [3]
#3 (Youssef Chahine, Egypt) [s] [5]
#4 (Danis Tanović, Bosnia-Herzegovina) [s] [5]
#5 (Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso) [s] [4]
#6 (Ken Loach, U.K.) [s] [5]
#7 (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico) [s] [6]
#8 (Amos Gitaï, Israel) [s] [8]
#9 (Mira Nair, India) [s] [4]
#10 (Sean Penn) [s] [2]
#11 (Shohei Imamura, Japan) [s] [8]
NOVEMBER
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin
Tarantino) [6]
-Finding Nemo (Andrew
Stanton) [6]
-Knick Knack (John Lasseter,
1989) [s]
In the Cut (Jane Campion,
U.S. / France) [6]
/-Code Unknown (Michael
Haneke, France / Austria, 2000)
/-All That Heaven Allows
(Douglas Sirk, 1954)
-Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl,
Austria) [5]
-Voyage in Italy (Roberto
Rossellini, Italy / France, 1953)
/-Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock,
1958)
/-Millennium Mambo (Hou
Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan) [7]
/-Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow,
Germany, 1932) [m]
-Daisies (Vera Chytilová,
Czechoslovakia, 1966)
The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised (Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Briain, Ireland) [v] [6]
-Trouble in Paradise (Ernst
Lubitsch, 1932)
Master and Commander: The Far
Side of the World (Peter Weir) [7]
Shattered Glass (Billy Ray)
[5]
/-Donnie Darko (Richard
Kelly, 2001)
/-Meshes of the Afternoon
(Maya Deren, 1943) [s]
/-Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
[s]
/-Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1974)
-Sisters of the Gion (Kenji
Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936) [m]
-The Man in the Moon (Robert
Mulligan, 1991)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) [7]
-The Age of Innocence (Martin
Scorsese, 1993)
-Stevie (Steve James) [5]
DECEMBER
/-Mothlight (Stan Brakhage,
1963) [s]
-Satan’s Brew (Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, West Germany, 1976)
Highway Landscape (J.J.
Murphy, 1972) [s]
/The Wind Will Carry Us
(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1999)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant) [5]
/Elephant (Gus Van Sant) [5]
-Power and Terror: Noam
Chomsky in Our Times (John Junkerman, U.S. / Japan) [no rating: more a visual
book-
on-tape
than a film]
-Osaka Elegy (Kenji
Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action
(Joe Dante) [7]
-Tears
of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand, 2000)
-Zero
Day (Ben Coccio) [8]
- Mondays
in the Sun (Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain) [5]
-Roberto Succo (Cedric Kahn,
France) [8]
-The
Embalmer (Matteo Garrone, Italy) [7]
-The
Cuckoo (Alexander Rogozhkin, Russia) [3]
Open
Range (Kevin Costner) [7]
Bubba
Ho-tep (Dan Coscarelli) [4]
My
Architect (Nathaniel Kahn) [7]
-Bungee
Jumping of Their Own (Kim Dae-Seung, South Korea) [4]
/-
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland) [8]
-Run
Ronnie Run (Troy Miller) [4]
thank
god that’s over.